Synopsis papismi, that is, A generall viewe of papistry wherein the whole mysterie of iniquitie, and summe of antichristian doctrine is set downe, which is maintained this day by the Synagogue of Rome, against the Church of Christ, together with an antithesis of the true Christian faith, and an antidotum or counterpoyson out of the Scriptures, against the whore of Babylons filthy cuppe of abominations: deuided into three bookes or centuries, that is, so many hundreds of popish heresies and errors. Collected by Andrew Willet Bachelor of Diuinity.

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Title: Synopsis papismi, that is, A generall viewe of papistry wherein the whole mysterie of iniquitie, and summe of antichristian doctrine is set downe, which is maintained this day by the Synagogue of Rome, against the Church of Christ, together with an antithesis of the true Christian faith, and an antidotum or counterpoyson out of the Scriptures, against the whore of Babylons filthy cuppe of abominations: deuided into three bookes or centuries, that is, so many hundreds of popish heresies and errors. Collected by Andrew Willet Bachelor of Diuinity.
Author: Willet, Andrew, 1562-1621.
Publication: At London :: Printed by Thomas Orwin, for Thomas Man, dwelling in Pater noster row at the signe of the Talbot,; 1592.
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The Papists.

ARgum. 2.

Iohn. 6.55. Christ sayth, My flesh is meate indeed, and my blood is drinke in deede: he that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, dwel∣leth in me, and I in him.

First, this place must be vnderstoode not of any spirituall eating or drin∣king of Christ without the sacrament, but is properly meant of the manduca∣tion and eating of him in the sacrament. First, Vers. 51. The bread, sayth Christ, that I will giue: he speaketh of a thing to come, for the sacrament was after∣ward instituted: but if this bread were to be taken for his word, and the eating thereof for beleeuing in him; in this sense the bread was giuen already.

Answ. Christ also speaketh in the present tense, vers. 32. My father giueth you the true bread from heauen: & I am the liuing bread that came down from heauen: if any man eate of this bread he shall liue for euer, vers. 51. Hee sayth not, he that shall eate, but, he that euen now eateth. And afterward he speaketh of the time to come;

The bread that I shall giue, because his death and passion was not yet finished: therefore he sayth, The bread that I shal giue, is my flesh, which I will giue for the life of the worlde:

But he speaketh euery where of the eating of his flesh in the present tense, vers. 35.50.51.53. which cannot bee vnderstoode of the sacramentall eating, the sacrament being not yet instituted, but of a spirituall manducation.